72 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



the laborious, than the sedentary class of 

 society. Mr. Boyle has several experiments 

 of beans, treated pneumatically, to shew the 

 great plenty of air they afford, on which 

 their flatulency depends. The expansion of 

 a bean, says this author, is found so consider- 

 able in growing, that it is capable of raising a 

 plug clogged with an hundred pounds 

 weight. 



The green pods boiled, after the beans are 

 taken out, is a dish that many people prefer 

 to the beans ; they should be served with 

 parsley and butter. The young leaves of 

 beans, boiled in broth, are esteemed highly 

 emollient. 



The varieties of beans recommended are, 

 the early Aldridge, early Mazagan, dwarf fan > 

 green Genoa, sword, long-podded, and the 

 white-blossomed Windsor. 



We have found it an excellent plan, in 

 procuring late beans, to cut down the stalks 

 after the crop is gathered for the kitchen ; 

 they then soon sprout up again, and, if 

 showery weather succeeds, yield a better 

 supply than is obtained by late planting. In 

 the summer of 1820, the author had some 

 Windsor beans so much blighted, that they 

 produced but little more than the original 



